Annotation:Summer in Ireland
X: 1 T:Summer in Ireland R:reel D:Matt Molloy & Sean Keane: Contentment is Wealth D:Davy Spillane: Shadow Hunter Z:id:hn-reel-369 Z:transcribed by henrik.norbeck@mailbox.swipnet.se M:C| L:1/8 F:http://tunearch.org/wiki/Dowd%27s_No._9 K:D DFAF GFEF|D2FA dABA|~F3A ~G3B|AGFD A,B,CA,| DFAF GFEF|D2FA dABA|~F3A ~G3B|1 AGFD EDDA,:|2 AGFD EDD2|| |:fd~d2 g2ag|fedf ecA2|fd~f2 gfed|dcde fddA| dfaf gfeg|fedf ecAF|GABG FAdB|1 AGFD EDD2:|2 AGFD A,B,CA,|| P:"Variations of 1st part" |:DFAF GEFG|FDFA dABG|F2AF G2BG|AGFD A,B,CA,| DFAF GEFG|FDFA dABG|F2AF ~G3B|AGFD EFD2:||
SUMMER IN IRELAND (An samhradh in Éirinn). AKA and see "O'Dowd's No. 9," "Dowd's No. 9," "Jackson's No. 9," "Hugh Gillespie's," "Cow with the Crooked Horn." Irish, Reel . D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The tune, as "Summer in Ireland, was recorded in New York, in 1927, by fiddler Joe Tansey who was born at Calteraun, Gurteen, Co. Sligo. Tansey received tutelage in fiddling with his brother Bernie at the Jamesie Coleman music hall in Killavil in the early 1900s. He emigrated to New York in the early 1900s and quickly became a fixture of the Irish diaspora musical scene in the city in the early 20th century. See also his "Tansey's Favourite (1)" and "Tansey's Favourite (2)."
